Il6 THIRTY-FIVE YAERS IN TIIE EAST. 



were fired on the entrance of Dulleep Sing, who was given 

 up again to his mother in the fortress. Jewahir Sing was 

 dragged to prison. At that time Jellah Pundit entered 

 into a tender connection with a widow of Sheer Sing, and 

 promised her that he would murder Dulleep Sing, and place 

 her son, as legitimate heir of the Guddee, on the throne. 

 The affair could not be performed secretly, and it reach- 

 ed the ears of impartial persons, so the ranee Chund 

 became informed of this conspiracy, and that was quite 

 sufificient to suffocate it at its birth. Women's cunning 

 surpasses all skill, especially if the question conerns their 

 own interest. First of all, she contrived to secure the good 

 will of the treasurer, Lall Sing. Who would have thought 

 that a man, who owed his splendid position to Rajah 

 Dhyan Sing, and who lived always in the society of Heera 

 Sing, with whom he contracted brothership, and with whom 

 Jellah Pundit exchanged turbans as a token of true amity, 

 would have played the felon against these friends, in 

 supporting the ranee with his advice and activity ? First of 

 all he occasioned the release of her brother, Jewahir Sing, 

 and gave him the required sums, with which he allured the 

 Nahungs, in order to bring him out of the city. He succeed- 

 ed immediately in attaching the discontented regular troops 

 to his party ; and at the head of his partisans, he appeared 

 the next morning, on the place used for millitary displays 

 before the fortress, asking from Heera Sing the delivery 

 of Jellah Pundit ; Heera Sing obstinately refusing the 

 request, and feeling himself at the same time too feeble 

 to oppose openly the mutineers, resolved to fly, as before 

 mentioned, with Meean Son Sing, Jellah Pundit and his 

 partisans the mountaineers, &c., directing their steps to- 

 wards the river Ravee. Thus the whole body of the 

 Sikhs became alienated from his interest, and his most 

 intimate friends, pursued him with the army, and when he 

 was overtaken, they killed all who could not escape. Lall 

 Sing and Jewahir Sing re-entered the fortress victoriously 

 about noon, with their trophies, consisting of five heads, 

 whilst the robber-pack, as rear-guard, eager for booty, 



